this sounds good because you can do more with an education in comm than English. You could write for newspapers, magazines, do freelance work or you could teach and you could also do writing in PR like doing brochures and news letters if you got desperate for a job. I think comm gives u more options.

Communications as a degree will not help a creative writer too much. Indeed, the most prolific creative writers have taken courses farthest from creative writing—only for such writing to be enriched and made more interesting by knowledge gained from what they formally studied. John Grisham (A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief) studied accounting and then law. Agatha Christie (novelist, playwright) studied singing and piano. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) studied medicine and even practiced as a doctor. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature) studied law and journalism.

An English degree will be better because it will expose you to the classics (English and other literature) and to the various genres you may want to pursue as a creative writer. It will also require you to write and write and write—plenty of practice to develop the discipline needed to finish manuscripts/copy.

Good luck.

English is actually more marketable. Communications is known for being one of the very easiest degrees on most campuses, so people don’t respect it. A degree in English indicates that you can do everything a communications major can, and that you have worked harder. On the other hand, if you have a good day job, you might not devote yourself well enough to your writing.

My sister was a communications major at a top 50 university. She ended up in retail sales, so I’d check your placement department before majoring in something that may not be all that marketable. I’d also inquire into journalism. I’m not sure whether it is more or less marketable than communications. Public relations and advertising might be more marketable.

My son’s dad did major in creative writing and he ended up working for a small town newspaper.

You’re probably wiser to go for what’s more marketable. I’m not so sure that you can learn how to write as such. It’s a God-given talent. Read as much as you can, experience as much as you can – and the writing will flow! Good luck!

english major is better. in communications it leads into journalism not creative writing.

Communications majors are usually business minded people. If thats not your thing, then try history.